Let My People Go
In “Let My People Go,” performed at the Performance Art Institute, the French actress, dancer, and director looks at the life and work of two women who died young. The English poet and playwright Sarah Kane was twenty-eight when she killed herself; the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon was gassed at Auschwitz at age twenty-six. From Kane’s raw words and Salomon’s images, bright against a bleak present, Astrid Bas creates a blend of movement, spoken text, and video that honors courage in the face of death.
